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The AJ’s Women in Architecture issue features interviews with Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and winner of this year’s Jane Drew Prize; and architectural photographer Hélène Binet, who has won the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for women working in the wider industry. PLUS We revisit O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Saw Swee Hock LSE student centre to see how it is faring five years on; the AJ’s Working in Architecture ...

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Riba president David Rock sounds a little hurt in the latest council papers, sent out to members this week before the main event on 21 January. None of the press picked up his 'trenchant and carefully honed' papers introducing Nick Raynsford at Interbuild or Mark Fisher at an Oxford conference. The last straw had to be the press coverage of the president's inaugural speech. His 'workmanlike address' was too long, he admits, but the press concentrated on this, rather than content. The exception, says Rock, was ar editor Peter Davey, who delivered a 'thoughtful and appreciative article . . . all the more significant by being in such a quality magazine. . .Peter Davey deserves his obe in the New Year's Honours List.'

Whether it be photos of using some novel mode of self-propulsion, checking out the artisan produce of Martha’s Vineyard or reclining on a giant inflatable unicorn, Norman Foster ’s Instagram account is regularly inundated with adoring comments from around the globe

Writing recently in defence of new housing tsar Roger Scruton , fellow provocateur Toby Young hit out at the army of ‘offence archaeologists’ trawling the internet (mainly the philosopher’s own website ) in search of morsels of controversy

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